Avast, Matey!

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2003)

28 Days later is a Fantabulously shiney and new approach to the Zombie movie. Sure, some people may argue and say it's not a zombie movie, but I say it is. I say that because I need to believe it, and because Resident Evil was a big ol' Toilet Tater, and I want to forget about it. In order to forget, I need a new zombie movie to talk about. So this is my new movie.

The fantastic newness stems from the fact that we are treated almost immediately to an explanation of the infection that causes people to become "The infected". I'm not aware that this approach has been used before, although, I have been wrong on many, many occasions.
The infection is carried in the Blood and Saliva, of the carriers and can be passed via the same bodily fluids. Henceforth, if you kill one of the infected, and get some of it's blood in your eye, you are also infected. Now, this is totally sweet for two reasons.
1. The Infected projectile vomit blood to infect other people. Kudos to Danny Boyle for fitting projectile vomiting into his movie. It's about time a director gave it a chance. I salute you projectile vomit.

2. The Infection only takes about 30 seconds to ummm....infect you. This is cool because when someone gets infected, you don't have any time to waste, you need to kill them, like now.
The acting is good, all fairly new actors as far as I know. They may be big in Europe, I have no idea. They all did fantastic if you ask me. You can identify with the characters, and the Infected are convincingly violent and depraved.
After all is said and done, I give this movie a ten! It makes me want to go drink bright red slushies all day long until I vomit ghastly red fountains of slushie matter into the faces of the nay sayers that didn't appreciate it! Hoooray!